DAMAGE BY FIRE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 10

DAMAGE BY FIRE

IN CHRISTCHURCH WAREHOUSE Dominion Special. Christchurch, December 7. Aided by a heavy north-west wind, a fire gutted the premises of Stauiland, Ltd., salt, spice, and coffee merchants, Moorhouse Avenue, to-day. The outbreak was extinguished after a fight that lasted half an hour, but not until a considerable amount of damage had been done Much valuable machinery was damaged, but not beyond repair. A large quantity of goods, including salt, grain, and other produce, was destroyed bv both fire and water. Many cases o? skewers were burned and charred. The large wool stores belonging to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., are next door, and the floorboards had caught when the fire brigade arrived. It took only a few minutes for the firemen to extinguish this outbreak, otherwise there might have been more serious results. The stock and machinery are insured for £3lOO, .and the building for £5OO, both with the Southern Union office.

Be pt epared. See that you have adequate fire insurance. Consult the Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., Panama Street. Wellington.— Ailvt